Widow of ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’ still seeks truth of his death

Nearly three decades after the assassination of Burkina Faso’s iconic ex-president Thomas Sankara, his widow Mariam is still campaigning to shed full light on his 1987 death. “I haven’t given up, I won’t give up until the truth is known,” the 62-year-old told AFP in a rare interview during a visit to Paris. The widow of the revolutionary former army captain, who launched an ambitious anti-imperialist programme for social and economic change during his four years in power, has lived in exile in Montpellier, southern France, since 1990.